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New Types of Bike Facilities Needed?
Last Saturday’s Wall Street Journal (yes, the Journal now publishes on Saturdays) contained an article about congestion on bike paths. Unfortunately the online article requires a subscription, so I can’t link to it. The main theme of the article was about the popularity of off-street trails and the resulting congestion and conflicts between types of…
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BTA Releases “Blueprint for Better Biking”
On October 6, 2005, the BTA released our Blueprint for Better Biking: 40 Ways to Get There. The report provides a strategy and roadmap to increase bicycling in the Portland metro area. The report provides 40 essential projects, programs, and policies that are critical to bringing the region to the next level, and a “Top…
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KBOO Bike Show: BTA Director Evan Manvel and the Ghost Bike Project
Listen to the show (mp3, 11.6M) BTA Executive Director Evan Manvel discusses bicycle advocacy, safety and “sharrows”. Forrest Burris talks about the Ghost Bike project, memorializing cyclists killed by autos by erecting white bicycles at the crash sites. The Walk + Bike to School program is also discussed.
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Bicycles Outselling Cars!
I’m a subscriber to the ‘carfree network’ listserv. These folks are a little out there, even for this alternative mode activist. But every once in a while there’s a real gem, like this link to an article suggesting that last year more bikes than cars were sold in the U.S. The article attributes this to…
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Enjoying the Rain
Wet. There’s no avoiding the truth. I got wet this morning biking to work. In what was a rare Portland rain (usually it’s just drizzle), I put on my rain pants and my mediocre raincoat and biked through some serious rain and puddles to work. Coming across the Hawthorne Bridge, I was glad to see…